Bad Boys for Life (2020)
Bad Boys 3 has been in the works for over ten years, with the script phase beginning in 2009. Columbia Pictures assigned Peter Craig, co-writer of Ben Affleck’s The Town, for the first pass,...
2020s / Action / Comedy / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published April 17, 2020 · Last modified April 18, 2020
Bad Boys 3 has been in the works for over ten years, with the script phase beginning in 2009. Columbia Pictures assigned Peter Craig, co-writer of Ben Affleck’s The Town, for the first pass,...
1990s / Action / Comedy / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published January 29, 2008 · Last modified January 16, 2019
The most comedic of the Beverly Hills Cop films turns out to be the least amusing, despite a veteran director (Landis, An American Werewolf in London) and screenwriter (de Souza, Hudson Hawk), ones who have worked with Murphy...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 23, 2007 · Last modified February 20, 2019
Spike Lee (Clockers, He Got Game) tackles the racism issue head on once again with his provocative drama, Jungle Fever, which deals with the complications of an interracial relationship in the racially charged environs of metropolitan...
2000s / Action / Comedy / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published July 25, 2003 · Last modified April 18, 2020
Although I am not a fan of any other Michael Bay mega-blockbusters, I did enjoy the original Bad Boys, mostly because it did manage to make me laugh quite a bit. Even so, I came...
1990s / Action / Horror / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published February 1, 1998 · Last modified February 20, 2019
The country’s best mercenary, Al Simmons, gets double-crossed in what was to be his final mission, and ends up killed by his supervisor, Jason Wynn. The mercenary is then offered a deal by the...
1990s / Action / Comedy / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published January 10, 1998 · Last modified February 20, 2019
Bad Boys is a movie at odds with itself. The part of it that tries to be a comedy is a smashing success, with Martin Lawrence at his best, delivering line after funny line amid a...
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